Jesus is God’s wide-open Invitation! Advent week 3
Jesus came to do away with the exclusions, the holier-than-thou's, the finger-pointing, the peremptory judgments. Jesus replaced all that with an invitation
cooking, simmering, preparing, waiting… Advent
It is not too late to get Christmas right this year. It is not too late to join the Magi and follow the star. It is not too late to begin the journey home.
Grace: Advent Week Two and Eternity Day One
When we understand the implications of Grace, then conflict necessarily lives outside the bounds of grace's covering
I’m dreaming of a “festive, quirky, faith-filled” Christmas…
filtered through the lens of God's spectacular initiative of love and grace in Jesus.
the search for Jesus – we can help
Seek the light; point to the light; be the light.
Gloriously and effectively, the gift of light and life!
The dark is simply incompatible with light, and the beautiful, elegant, uncomplicated consequence of introducing light is that we don't then have to do anything about the dark - because it is simply gone.
The Advent of the Birth of Promise – this is the day to come home to church!
Jesus is actually here, the moment is now, and his birth, the miracle of Christmas, is completely accessible and present today, here in December 2018.
“and a little child will lead them” – well, she led me… #WalkThroughBethlehem
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; the calf and the young lion will feed…
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“People Get Ready…”
we simply need to remember - every single day - that we belong to Jesus and that we have been given the gift of hope, peace, joy, love, and promise in order to share it with a hungry, broken world.
for the beauty of the earth – more gratitude
this declaration of Thanksgiving is not about ease of living but about the richness and the purpose
